The first U.S. Secretary of Education. A 1995 Nobel Prize winner. The first Black student to graduate from Caltech. An educator who spent years trying to diversify the university's student population.

Having traveled the difficult road of coming to terms with racism in its own past, Caltech on Friday said it would remove the names of Robert A. Millikan and five other important figures in its ...

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Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana will become Caltech's next president. He joins the campus from Johns Hopkins University, where he is provost.

At first blush, the California Institute of Technology seemed to respond promptly and well to the uproar sparked this summer over its apparent complicity with the racist eugenics movement of a century ...

If you’re anywhere near Pasadena today, you might want to stop by the California Institute of Technology for the Olive Harvest Festival, during which volunteers gather olives from about 130 trees ...

Caltech President Ray Jayawardhana, current Johns Hopkins provost and acclaimed astrophysicist, will lead the California Institute of Technology starting July 1, 2026.